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Mark Danni, founding artistic director of TheatreZone, Naples’ premier professional theatre company, announced the theatre’s 2024-2025 musical productions. The theatre company will celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2025 with a year-long observation of its milestones.
The 2024-2025 season begins with our traditional opener in Dec. 2024, Home for the Holidays, and continues with the Tony Award winning best musicals Once; Jersey Boys; the Kander and Ebb treasure The Rink, and the musical version of the hit film Ghost.
HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS
December 20-22, 2024
TheatreZone’s original musical extravaganza, Home for the Holidays, is a Southwest Florida tradition celebrating its eighth annual production. Home for the Holidays creator Mark Danni reimagines the show every year to enchant audiences with new music and glittering costumes and scenery. The energetic dance routines accompanied by a live orchestra leaves audiences filled with joy after every performance.
7:30 p.m. December 20 and 21
2 p.m. December 21 and 22
ONCE
January 9-19, 2025
Once, the Tony Award-winning Best Musical of 2012, tells a story of passion for music, heartbreak, intimacies, and wonder about the future. The plot follows the relationship between friends who develop feelings for one another and make decisions of the heart that will keep the audience guessing about happy endings.
7:30 p.m. January 9-12 and 16-19
2 p.m. January 11-12 and 18-19
THE RINK
February 6-16, 2025
Kander & Ebb’s The Rink made its Broadway debut in 1984 and was nominated for five Tony Awards. A failing skating rink in a decaying boardwalk is the setting for the relationship between an estranged mother and daughter. The Rink is one of ten Kander & Ebb collaborations, whose credits include Cabaret, Chicago, Kiss of the Spider Woman, and many more.
7:30 p.m. February 6-8 and 13-16
2 p.m. February 8-9 and 15-16
JERSEY BOYS
March 6-16, 2025
Jersey Boys, the 2006 Tony Award-winning Best Musical, was a blow-out success dramatizing the formation, success, and breakup of the 1960s group, The Four Seasons. The musical is a high-energy, innovative musical that takes audiences behind the scenes of the group and its music in a classic rags-to-riches — and back to rags — story.
7:30 p.m. March 6-9 and 13-16
2 p.m. March 8-9 and 15-16
GHOST
June 5-15, 2025
Ghost: The Musical is an adaptation of the 1990 Academy Award-winning hit film. Sam and Molly’s connection takes a shocking turn when Sam is killed in a mugging. Unwilling and unable to leave Molly, he hovers between two worlds. Ghost is a touching love story about a connection that even death cannot sever.
7:30 p.m. June 5-8 and 12-15
2 p.m. June 7-8 and 15